Dancing In The Dark

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps. - Thoreau

hanging neatly from double-jointed hangers

rings on their fingers and bells on their toes

arid, ashen bones rattle in a sinister percussion

dancing in the dark

laughing at me despite their jaws being wired

oh, i'm so tired of these skeletons in my closet

as i scratch my head and posit

i yell at them to go away and leave me alone

but they jiggle even more

at heaven's pearly gate and hell's larvaed shore

strutting

teasing, taunting 

threatening and daunting

as they form their own garage band

because they know they can

besides, who am i but a mere travelin' man

Author's Note

"It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

I have written a few poems on this particular topic. I love the garage band of skeletons in the closets disrupting you calm.

I feel if we confess to God and tell Him our trials and misdeeds and ask for guidance He will forgive us like no before we forgive ourselves.

This was so creative and quite comical making it lighter in tone so that it doesn’t weighed down the reader too much.

Maybe we can have a skeleton garage band concert with your and mine lmao 🤣

[Pete]

... using bones for drumsticks and ribcages for xylophones.

[Poetic Beauty]

The ultimate skeleton rock band

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Fantastic! I greatly enjoyed...loved the line "heaven's pearly gate and hell's larvaed shore" Great write.

[Pete]

thanks fgf, be careful when you open those closet doors.

[John the Baptist]

If you do have any skeletons in your closer, I suggest you give it deep thought before entering politics.

[Pete]

not sure about that, that could actually be a plus - it hasn't stopped people like biden and trump. nowadays it's almost expected that politicians will have skeletons in their closet - just a matter of what kind, how many and how bad.